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AP PHOTOS: Massive snowstorm blankets Northeast

Jan 3, 2014, 8:33 PM

(AP) – Traffic snarled on a New York City bridge. A tattered American flag whips over a flooded yard along the shore in Scituate, Mass. A man uses a snow blower to clear a lot in Jersey City, N.J.

These are just some of the images of the massive winter storm that left the Northeast under a blanket of snow Friday, causing major travel delays and at least nine deaths across the region. The nor’easter brought howling winds and frigid temperatures, with a wind chill of nearly 30 degrees below zero in Burlington, Vt.

Here are images from the storm:

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AP PHOTOS: Massive snowstorm blankets Northeast